Accessing buttons on a pop up dialog

Helper

On 17/09/2015 at 15:28, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Is it possible to access a button on a dialog from within a python script?

I have a script controlling the cache object from the X-particles plugin. At one point in the script, I need to click a button on the attributes panel, which I do with

c4d.CallButton(cache, c4d.XOCA_CACHE_FILL)

This calls up a dialog with several buttons. I can then click any of the buttons with a mouse click manually and the script will resume, but I am wondering if I can access and "click" one of the second set of buttons via python (the Overwrite button).

I found the string names for the buttons here:

// C4D-DialogResource
  
DIALOGSTRINGS IDD_CACHEBUILD
{
  IDS_BUTTON   "Overwrite";
  IDS_BUTTON1  "New Cache";
  IDS_BUTTON2  "Cancel";
  IDS_DIALOG   "Build Cache";
  IDS_STATIC   "A cache already exists on one or more of the objects.";
  IDS_STATIC1  "Group";
  IDS_STATIC2  "Click 'Overwrite' to overwrite the existing cache, 'New Cache' to create a new cache,";
  IDS_STATIC3  "";
  IDS_STATIC4  "or 'Cancel' to cancel the operation.";
  IDS_STATIC5  "Group";
}

And found the res file here:

// C4D-DialogResource
DIALOG IDD_CACHEBUILD
{
  NAME IDS_DIALOG; CENTER_V; CENTER_H; 
  
  GROUP IDC_STATIC
  {
    NAME IDS_STATIC1; ALIGN_TOP; SCALE_H; 
    BORDERSTYLE BORDER_NONE; BORDERSIZE 4, 4, 4, 0; 
    COLUMNS 1;
    
    STATICTEXT IDC_STATIC { NAME IDS_STATIC; CENTER_V; ALIGN_LEFT; }
    STATICTEXT IDC_STATIC { NAME IDS_STATIC3; CENTER_V; ALIGN_LEFT; }
    STATICTEXT IDC_STATIC { NAME IDS_STATIC2; CENTER_V; ALIGN_LEFT; }
    STATICTEXT IDC_STATIC { NAME IDS_STATIC4; CENTER_V; ALIGN_LEFT; }
    GROUP IDC_STATIC
    {
      NAME IDS_STATIC5; ALIGN_TOP; CENTER_H; 
      BORDERSTYLE BORDER_NONE; BORDERSIZE 0, 16, 0, 0; 
      COLUMNS 3;
      
      BUTTON IDC_OVERWRITECACHE { NAME IDS_BUTTON; ALIGN_TOP; ALIGN_LEFT; }
      BUTTON IDC_NEWCACHE { NAME IDS_BUTTON1; ALIGN_TOP; ALIGN_LEFT; }
      BUTTON IDC_CANCELCACHE { NAME IDS_BUTTON2; ALIGN_TOP; ALIGN_LEFT; }
    }
  }
}

But I am not sure how to test for and access the dialog IDD_CACHEBUILD (or if it is even possible due to threading or some other issue) and how to use this information.

Thanks for any help and comments.

Helper

On 18/09/2015 at 01:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

unfortunately it is not possible to press buttons in GeDialogs from code. Sorry.
For questions on 3rd party products I'd suggest to contact the 3rd party developers directly.